The Arab Apocalypse

This is a masterwork of the dislocations and radiant outcries of the Arab World... The Arab Apocalypse is an immersion into a rapture of chaos clawing toward destiny, a nullified hope refusing its zero. It is also the journey of a soul through the cartography of a global immediacy rarely registered by maps, replete with signposts like hieroglyphs in a storm of shrapnel and broken glass. And above all it is a book that, though capable of being read in its orderly sequence, has so surrendered to "being there," it can rivet the sensibility to the Middle Eastern condition at any point in the text--so rapid are its mutations, so becoming its becomingness--like a Wisdom book or a book of Changes. --Jack Hirschman